"The referendum is illegal and illegitimate and its outcome will not be recognised," Herman Van Rompuy, president of the European council, and José Manuel Barroso, European commission president, said in a joint statement on Sunday.
The European Union said the vote was "illegal and illegitimate and its outcome will not be recognised".
A memo was dispatched last week to all the country's overseas embassies instructing them to dismiss the vote as "illegitimate" and downplay the outcome.
If the way British democracy comports itself in responding to the referendum doesn't change, half its population will forever resent the outcome as illegitimate, and add it to their other, growing resentments.
Trump has telegraphed clearly that, should he lose the election, he intends to go all out in casting doubt on the legitimacy of a Clinton presidency, not just through claims that the electoral outcome was illegitimate, but also through continued public assaults on her supposed crookedness.
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Far from being illegitimate, it would be the democratic outcome.
"In our view, the outcome of this election is illegitimate," Mr. Tsvangirai, 61, said in a statement.
If Sunni parties and voters decide to sit out the elections, the outcome could be seen as illegitimate, and the guerrilla war, which is being led by Sunnis, could intensify.
On the other hand, a failure to resolve the ballot confusion in Palm Beach County by the legal process would make millions of Americans regard the outcome of this election as illegitimate.
If the goal here is to persuade a lot of Trump supporters that the outcome of the election is illegitimate, that could create a large audience that wants to hear this message during a Clinton presidency, a message that Trump's new media venture could peddle to them for fun and profit.
